May 21st vs. Atlanta

[RedSoxRooter]

Atlanta Braves (23-18) @ Boston Red Sox (24-17)

 

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Rookie Kyle Davieshttp://www.public.iastate.edu/~aslagell/sumr212/spacer.gif Tim Wakefield

(major league debut) http://www.public.iastate.edu/~aslagell/sumr212/spacer.gif(4-2) 3.61 ERA

 

• When; where: 7:05 p.m. Saturday; Fenway Park.

 

• Probable starters: RHP Kyle Davies (major league debut) vs. RHP Tim Wakefield (4-2, 3.61).

 

• Davies update: The 21-year-old Decatur native is set to make his big-league debut at Fenway Park. Davies was 2-1 with a 4.78 ERA in eight starts at Class AAA Richmond, struggling in his last two after an outstanding April. He had a 2.57 ERA before giving up 13 hits, 13 earned runs and 10 walks in 8 1/3 innings of those last two games. He had a .267 opponents average and ranked third in the International League with 38 strikeouts in 43 1/3 innings.

 

• Wakefield update: He's 2-2 with a 5.40 ERA in his past four starts, allowing 34 hits and nine walks in 26-2/3 innings over that stretch. Seattle amassed 11 hits and five runs in seven innings of a victory against him Sunday. The veteran knuckleballer is 3-3 with a 4.47 ERA in 12 games (five starts) against the Braves, no starts since 2000. Raul Mondesi is 5-for-25 with a homer against him, Julio Franco is 4-for-17, Chipper Jones is 2-for-7, and Andruw Jones is 2-for-8.

 

 

Ripe for the picking if you ask me.

[yeszir]

Ahahahahaha .

[YanksHater213]

http://www.cyberman-online.de/south_park_kyle.gif

 

wow... thats pretty hilarious

[BigPapiEnFuego]

This is going to be fun. This guy is either gonna get torn up or like some guys who face the sox for the first time, totally baffle our hitters and leave us with like 2 hits in 8 innings of shutout 9 strikeout work

 

 

please let this not be another Kazmir

[YanksHater213]

Yankees are down 4-0 and only have 3 hits through 7 innings.

[RedSoxRooter]

Yup. Yanks lose 7-1 . Like I said before, tonights game is so ripe.

[Sox fan in Tex]

This is an embarrassment. Astros losing 14-2 in the 6th. Damn frickin' Rangers. :rant:

[Sox fan in Tex]

Rain is delaying tonight's game...yeszir, how bad does the weather look? The radar doesn't look very good.

 

http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_bos_closeradar_medium_usen.jpg

[soxie thefangirl]

looks like they're gonna play through it according to NESN.

[Sizzlin22]

Holey f***ing crap Trot holey f***ing crap. He's HURT too! Wakefield ows him a steak dinner.

[RedSoxRooter]

Well, they left Damon at 3rd without scoring.<_>

 

That Braves pitcher, a rookie, gets out of the inning. He must be real happy Mondesi threw the 3rd out ball into the right field stands.

[yeszir]

I was watching Kingpin instead of the start of the game. Whoops.

[soxie thefangirl]

this game sucks so far except Trot and his amazing defense.

[ACL BoSox]

Why am I not suprised we're being shutout by a rookie?

 

6-0 Braves after Wake gets hacked away in the 5th.

[mosox]

Yeah, Davies is out of the game. Sosa used to pitch for the Rays, so the Sox should hit this guy.

[yeszir]

We should be beating this team.

[RedSoxRooter]

I blame the weather. Tek's fly out to end the game is off the wall on a normal day. Oh well.

[soxie thefangirl]

you're right. I figured it'd be a homerun. terrible game. hopefully we'll win tomorrow!

[Sox fan in Tex]

Bah, I really wish we would have won today. Atleast then we would have guaranteed a series win.

[schillingouttheks]

I'm goin to tomorrow's game...

 

I'm 4-0 in Sox games so far this year so hopefully it will bring them a win...

 

We tend to hit good pitchers well anyway (a la Smoltz), and Clement's goin tomorrow too so it should be nice.

 

Hey, at least the Yanks lost.

 

And oh yeah, that Davies guy...looked pretty good.

 

P.S. Something I was thinking about with Foulke's recent poor performances (yes, I know he didn't pitch tonight)...he hasn't been great his whole career...could we possibly be seeing some of remnants of his days back in Chicago and San Francisco as a White Sox and Giant?

[Zenny]

http://www.baseball-reference.com/f/foulkke01.shtml

 

Only in his first season has he been anything but above average. He was damn good with the White Sox except for that one stretch at the beginning of '02. I think we're just seeing a repeat of '02, a season in which he finished with an ERA+ over 150.

[Soxfan1]

Smoltz pitching today. I hope we can get to him early.